A friend who dropped down in the world and ended up living in one of the brutalist concrete neighbourhoods in London, told me of how his local corner shop stopped shoplifting. The owner joined a loca… (View Post)

The apology, retraction and resignations of a couple of NU10K’rs (who will be in better paid jobs before Monday lunchtime) is almost irrelevant. What is needed, is some tightening up on *enforcement*… (View Post)

A few years back a journalist friend got interested in my recounting the story of the Soviet bio-weapons program. Short version - the USSR massively breached the Biological Weapons Treaty, from the s… (View Post)

We could appoint your new bestie, Tucker Carlson? No, wait - https://whyy.org/articles/tucker-carlson-defamation-suit-messages/ "$787.5 million settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Sy… (View Post)

Yeah, someone having thousands of pounds of tools required to do their job being stolen isn’t important. The police do as much as for phone theft. Until quite recently, you could find tools for sale … (View Post)